Tendances récentes du développement et de l’organisation des entreprises

The conference aims to create a forum for discussion on issues related to the recent patterns of firms activity, the organization of production and financing decision, as well as their determinants, consequences and implications for policymaking. It will feature keynote speeches by Jan Eeckhout (UPF Barcelona), Thierry Mayer (Sciences Po) and Stefanie Stantcheva (Harvard). Papers are invited on the following (non-exhaustive) list of topics:

• The evolution of firm market power and the labor share: causes and consequences
• Firm profitability: rents or return to innovation?
• Firm heterogeneity: Multinationals, super stars, and the rest
• Location decisions of firm production
• Globalization and firm organization
• Cash hoarding of firms: lack of demand or precautionary savings in an uncertain environment?
• Old and new forms of financing firm activities, tangible and intangible investment
• Managerial practices, institutional quality and firm performance
• Public policies to stimulate investment
• Effects of firm subsidies
• Optimal firm taxation
• Firms’ adaptation to climate change

Program committee: Juan Carluccio (Banque de France), Federico Cingano (Banca d’Italia), Sabien Dobbelaere (VU Amsterdam), Paolo Finaldi Russo (Banca d’Italia), Stéphane Guibaud (Sciences Po), Isabelle Méjean (CREST-Ecole Polytechnique), Jean-Stéphane Mésonnier (Banque de France), Claudio Michelacci (EIEF and CEPR).